THE PROPOSED SHIP CANAL. Pursuant to a requisition addressed to the Right Worshipful the Mayor by the Committee appointed to determine the best mode of obtain- ing direct communication between Hobson's Bay and Melbourne, a public meeting was held on Wednesday, at the Mechanic's Institute to hear the Report of the Committee. The chairman read the requisition, and briefly opened the meeting. He believed most of the colonists were impressed with the importance of improving the means of water communication between the City and the Bay, although, from the few persons in attendance, it would not seem so. Mr. Henry Thompson read the following re- port -: The Report of the Committee, appointed at a Public Meeting of the Citizens of Mel- bourne, held at the Mechanics' Institution on the 5th day of Sept., 1851, the Right Worshipful the Mayor in the chair, for the purpose of obtaining information, and to report as to the best mode of obtaining di- rect communication between Hobson's Bay and Me...

TO THE GOLD DIGGERS. THE fine ship RENOWN will affati the next most suitable opportunilt or shi:ment to London All partieswe intend to avail themselves of this c n;ey ince, to send their gold home for sal under advance, will be enabled to do - by early application to the undersignei THORNE, SPARKS &amp; Co., Gold Dirgers' Bank, Corner of MIoorabool-stret on the Beach. April 24, 1852. BOARDING A-D SELECT DAY SCHOOL, FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN, La Trobe Terrace, Geelong. 1.1 R. BEHAN (late of the Universit SCollege, Lon'on,) and for nra years Assistant Master in Univeril College School ; has recently opened thi Establishment for the reception of Resi dent Pupils, and the admission of selct Day Scholars: The course of Instruction comprires Classics, Mathematics, and the subjects of a Commercial and efficient English edu, cation. Mr. Behan begs to inform the Parentl of the Children whom he has hihrltI declined (as requiring more Elementirv instruction than is pursued in his School that he ...

CAPE OF GOtD IIJPE. We anvo n'wi from the Cape via [lohart Town to the 4thl Iebruarr. Thie Kafir War till continues, and although some of tht C(hief hble miae overtures of pesCe it is Idouhtfl l~ether they are oimcere. We give lhlwv tle mrnnt interentilng intelligence from the fset of war · ;Uerld Bemers?t ani his patrol are oat at AuaklianiL; and on the 5th of Februtarv they had a rea.t fight, ani ilf ,mthin~ to, our'dlisalvan tage. The Kat River people are reported to haveflIed! Some Fingoi,,however, took ap a posaitieaon nd e~ed the prs?uit o the Kafi, killing several of their number. The a course escaped The General aend hic ,ten were, as reported, in the valley below or ,a,. tac . .cnttino ntr mrads. Thenatiresal Irat lars seem to have been sent outot as ousal t the dangrrons work, as they were once befoe Lnshin.ton Valler with los s, Feb. 10).--Letters f m Kafirland rrt n i the troops enaged in destroyvio- the eor the Imatolaos, meet with no o .position IKatiro. repeated messa...

POLICE OFFICE Frilay, April 23. nURSE ST.ABISG. Ican TnoaPE Was Charge with horse-stea m3.oseph Daggan deposed, I was storekeeper at 31r. Cilrk'o stotion, above B3ninyona, mad eCsne to town about five weeks ago. Ileft a eheotnnth illv, rising four years old with a star in thefor? head, and bhrndle G on the near shoulder, run ning near Mr.Clark's. I valne the filly at £20. In the begiuning of this week I saw the filly in town, a boy belonging to Mr. Wallace was rid ing the filr. I never sold the illy,; -r Lsreany one authority to take her. 'ise one now outside the Court is mine, and is the one. Charles Oliver s?eted, I amn clerk to Mr. O'Farrell, the snctioe-,-. LtasUonday week, the rrisoner Thorpo brough a horse to 3 r. OFarrell's for sale. It was a chastnut filiy, tralded either C or Gin the near shoulder. Ih ave seen thu hule nor ootsile the Court, it is teo scoe one. The lilly was sold to Mr. \allae, the solicitor, fJor £8 5s.,when the prisoner brought the horse to mqe, he told m...

SUPREME COURT, MELBOURNE. Thor?l?r, April 22, 1822. BErone His Honor ?1r .ultiee Barrr. ECCLESr STICAL .JERISDICTIOn.. I THElE GOnD8 OF JAMES nIClIANAN, DECEASED, On the motion of 3Mr. Croke, letters of ndmi iistrlation wre rsntedl to Rolbrt Buchanon, brother and next of kin to the deceased. INSOLVENr COURT IN THE ESTATE OF THOMAS WTTTE. On the aotion of the Chiaf Commissioner of Insolveot Etateo, the plan ofdistrihution in this estate was esrm,,n ed. The estate p:ays a divi denl of 4P. S.l. JO TOE ESTATE Or SESTR STEEL SAWff. A similar tJon wo mle a n ? Trn td for the eonlirnili, n of the plan of diatribtion in this estate, whieh pays a dlivildend of 2s 2?d.

THE LEAGUE. TRAr the Anti-Transnortation movemntt begins to attract atten:iot at home, is maniftstcd in urious wars. The following extr.Act frem Frnser's lagzine shows what opinions are nomw being premnlgated both through the daily and monthly pernalical press: U In violation of acknowledged principles and pledges, thousands of home bral s?eamlps and nrflilmsare still let of, year by year, from hang ine here, to hi thrst into the thicklyr-peopled islannd home of Yan Diemen's Land rompatriots, and to warder thence into neighbonring eelonies in still more direct violence of expr ess parlia mentary stipulations. In answer to remon strance, Lnl Grey anrily repodiated ailie the professions nfl his ex-minsi terial oratory, nd the exp'ieit pledges ef his ministerial anothority Hie h:ls even attnempted an ingioas distinction of tile subject, from the ctegory of matnters df ocil concern whlich he has he.n forcei into con ceda'n to colonial control by coustitotional en frane'i'ement: thilus, ...

ABSTRACT OFSALES BY AUC1ION SATURDAY, APRIL 24. By J. B. Hutton &amp; Co. at 2, Suburban Land. By J. G. Carr, at 1, Cottage and Land. By O'Farreil and Son, at I, Clydesda'e Horses. fo-NDAY, APRIL 26. By J.G.Carr, at I, Residenre and Lau TUESDAY, APRIL 27. By J Carr, at I, Land at Kildare. By J.»B. Hutton &amp; Co., at IL Carzaol the Lilias. WEDNESDAY, APrn. 2S. By J. G. Carr, at I, Town Land. By J. B. Hutton &amp; Co., at 11, conti nuation of sale of Merchandise. 1ONDAY, MAY 3. By J. G. Carr, at I, valuable House Pro gerty.

To the lEditor ,f the Gelon. Advertiser and Intellidencer. Sm -- With much reluctance I enter upon a subject, to me most painful; in asmuch as every local publication, in re ference to existing evils in Victoria, will not fail to find its way to the mother country and of course redont much to her disparagement. But I Ihve a duty to perform to myselif and. family; and if for no other reason, when the matter in question is of so serious a nature, I should be perfectly justified in speaking loudly for redress from the head of the Government. 31y office, as one of the Aldlermecn of the Corporation, although it does not impose judicial authority upon n?c, yet reeders it incumbent upon ume that [(and inlecl every othe:r reen:cer of the Corpratin,) should. use every exer tion to obtain the correet'hn of a crying evil under which the ciizeus are sutfer ing. Iouldepeakl, then, as th: head of' one family amongst thousands-, who hl:ave daily hel.l up before their eyes the startling fact of the...

S- ELBiOURNE. MTsr, cnoLr oAr?1.Ers.n--A most distressing occident occurred c, rhe morninz of Tuesday last at the" Brihle fnn, Deep Creek,which considering the attendant cirru.stancea, spread a degree of clom. and aorroow over the whole neighboolrhood. A party of four who bh.auldjnt arried from Circu lar Heod, folly equilpced for the diggings, were procreding on the Deep Creek road to their des tihatium; they hbad jaat reached Donohue's Irn, Deep Creeki, ad were wendino their war up the steip hill that fronts that place, drivtig their teams before them, when a rile full charged fell from the dr, snd the lhammer coming in col lision wihh the gronr.d caused the piece to ex p!oe. Unfortuntelr, a poorf fellow nimed John Combea, one of the partv, who was lighting his pipe behind the dran at the time received the contents in the calf of his lev, thich was fright fully shattelred. Intimation of thecireamstances having reached town. Dr. Thomas ihastened to the ?.nsistnce of the sufferina me...